Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

All poetry is misrepresentation.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.